Ye Zheng, Yimin Chen, Yidan Hu
[PETS'26]: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
News
Dissertation: I finished the first version of my Ph.D. dissertation “Local Differential Privacy: Refined Mechanism Design and Utility Analysis”. Here are the presentation slides.
PETS'26 • Best Student Paper Award: “Quantifying Classifier Utility under Local Differential Privacy” received the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award.
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Ye Zheng, Yidan Hu
[PETS'26]: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium ★ Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award
Ye Zheng, Yidan Hu
[PETS'26]: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
Ye Zheng, Sumita Mishra, Yidan Hu
[PETS'25]: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium ★ Artifact Award Runner-up
Ye Zheng, Shafizur Rahman Seeam, Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang
[PETS'25]: Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
Ye Zheng, Jiaxiang Liu, Xiaomu Shi
[FSE'22 Demonstrations]: European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
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[JOS'22] and [IJSI'22]: 软件学报 and International Journal of Software and Informatics
Awards
Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award • PETS Award Committee, March 2026
Artifact Award Runner-up • PETS Artifact Evaluation Committee, August 2025
Outstanding Graduate • Shenzhen University, June 2023
National Scholarship • Ministry of Education, China, September 2022
Biography
Rochester Institute of Technology (2023 – Present)
- Ph.D. student in Computer Science
- Research interests: AI Privacy and Differential Privacy (Formal Privacy), advised by Dr. Yidan Hu
- Dissertation: “Local Differential Privacy: Refined Mechanism Design and Utility Analysis” Slides
Shenzhen University (2020 – 2023)
- M.S. in Software Engineering
- Research interests: Neural Network Verification (Formal Verification), advised by Dr. Jiaxiang Liu
- Thesis: “Research and Application of Multipath Method in Neural Network Verification” Slides
Henan University (2016 – 2020)
- B.S. in Mathematics
- Majored in Pure Mathematics, advised by Dr. Zhonghua Wang
Misc
Reviewer for: TOIT (2026) • TKDD (2025) • TASE (2024) • SAS (2024)